8 potential lawsuits and renewal of MSA #8 Bell and MSA- San Diego to be discussed June 13 #Gulen #CharterSchoolFraud

Magnolia Science Academy June 13, 2019 meeting #GulenSchool from Gulen Cemaat

More on Bob Blumenfield's odd relationship with #MagnoliaScienceAcademy #GulenSchools #MustafaSahin #MarkDierking

2 years before Bob Blumenfeld's facilitating redevelopment land and funds to Magnolia Science Academy #1 (MSA #1) Reseda  - RESEDA TOWN CENTER this will be over $10 million in value.
Blumenfeld is boasting about his partnership with Mustafa Sahin and Magnolia Science Academy.

As a reminder this School was DENIED renewal by LAUSD in October 2016 and was accepted by 1 vote to be managed by the LA county office of education.  This was after the County Superintendent and staff both recommended denial to the board (who is selected not elected)   they remain under their watchful eye.

Magnolia's past CEO Caprice Young is married to Mark Dierking who we identified as part of the SV planning commission which has access to redevelopment land and funds.  Mark Dierking you are a shameful person as your wife is, hopefully soon you both are investigated for fraud of federal money.

Click here on Magnolia ground breaking

click on Mark Dierking ties to SV planning commission



Click here on Blumenfelds long term relations with Pacifica

UPDATE   FEBRUARY 2019     

Backgrounder on state of affairs at Magnolia Science Academy

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Markers of the Gulen operations

Gulen Movement Organizational Markers from Gulen Cemaat

The Gulen Orchestra=Gulen Magnolia Science Academy Caprice Young

Magnolia Science Academy and Harmony Science Academy share ISP "The Planet" out of Houston, TX

http://www.thegetrank.net/site/vannuys.magnoliascience.org

Gulen information in Spanish, Hispanic families, neighborhoods are targeted by Gulen School

Gulen escuelas informacion en espanol from Gulen Cemaat

When a charter school is troubled beyond repair, lies, false advertising nothing will work.

According to Caprice Young, the 5th CEO of the Magnolia Public Schools in less than 15 years of their troubled existance "Magnolia is an award winning school according to US Report and world News"  so what is this US Report and world news?- a mere poll.  Gulenists have slammed these online polls, Magnolia is not the only Gulenists operated charter school to be declared a "top school."

Caprice Young is the 5th CEO in less than 15 years. 

The other troubled Gulenist operated charter school in Oklahoma Dove Science Academy, has also declared they are a US News and World report "top school" despite a brutal rape on campus and a state audit showing they overcharged the taxpayers of Oklahoma over $1 million to rent a building owned by a fellow Gulenist Turk.   Dove Science Academy also had a visit this past week from a member of Congress to give a few students a Congressional award as Magnolia Science Academy has.  

To Caprice Young, if your schools were so great why did you get turned down on 8 applications in 5 districts for an expansion?   Caprice Young continues to tout her Gulen Magnolia Public Schools as something unique and novel when in fact, they are the same as any other Gulenists operated charter school in the USA.   

Yes, we know you managed to get $17 million to build a new facility but more than likely it was done on false pretenses, and the lease, payments and other finances are closely watched .  Here is an updated photo that Mr. Serce took just 3 days ago.  You shouldn't be in such a huge hurry to expand when you have barely 100 students in 3 schools.  The Gulenists operated schools in California called the Magnolia Science Academy were originally DENIED their renewal in Santa Ana, California by the local Santa Ana Unified School District.  The Gulenist (sneaky bastards) then went to the layer above the school district - the Santa Ana COUNTY school district to have the denial overturn.  Without discussing their impending audit and recommendation to be shuttered in LAUSD.  

Not only were the Gulenists able to overturn the denial by bypassing the local governing board they received a $17 million loan/ bond to build a new school .  

https://dgsnewswire.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/office-of-public-school-construction-helps-break-ground-for-new-orange-county-school/comment-page-1/

Khadijah Ghafur Sentenced in Charter School Case, another cult operated charter school

Lessons learned in California #WakeUpAMERICA

Gulen-Linked Charter Application in Fremont, California Magnolia Science Academy

Gulen-Linked Charter Called Out At California Board Meeting
Forwarded by Tim Furman

So, this just happened out in Fremont, California. The Gulen node out there, Magnolia "Public" Schools, is applying for a charter at Fremont Unified, a respected school district there run by elected people.

Evidently this district already has a district-run charter school, which sounds to me like an alternative-type school, and it's very well regarded. It also appears that they just got rid of a privately run charter school for various reasons. 

And now they have the Gulenists trying to move in. Here's a short clip. The first speaker is Caprice Young, who has been hired to be the head of Magnolia by the actual Gulenists -- the chain itself was on the rocks in LA and they needed to shore up their image; she is almost certainly not in the Movement herself and may indeed not know what is going on, but it is far more likely that she knows exactly what is going on but is choosing to look away in exchange for a fat paycheck. She certainly has a long history with them and a generally terrible reputation.   The guy speaking after her is a lawyer from Robert Amsterdam's firm; he is indeed representing the government of Turkey.

http://www.tbfurman.us/2016/01/gulen-linked-charter-called-out-at.html

Magnolia Science Academy "Gulen Inspired" tries for school in Fremont, CA TONIGHT 1/13/2016

Magnolia Science Academy that "Gulen inspired" mess that was to close 1 year ago is on a surge to grow.  In August 2015 they tried to recruit parents and students using the ICF (Islamic Cultural Center of Fremont).  This was targeting the large Afghanistani population that lives in the area and the ex students of CLOSED charter school FAME Charter School. 

Their application is here full of inconsistencies
670 pages.

http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/fremont/Board.nsf/files/A4T6MU148EEE/$file/MSA%20Fremont%20Charter%20Petition.pdf

Plenty of signatures from potential teachers who say they are "meaningfully interested in teaching" at the school -- along with their resumes and a those of a whole lot of other teachers (pg 444-555). Right. The closest lives in Monterey and the rest give addresses in SoCal.

Interestingly, the one from Monterey (Joseph Compagno) had prev. worked for Magnolia and the Gulen charter school in Buffalo, taught English at Fatih U for one year, and also taught at "Milky Way School" in Teaneck in the mid-1990s.
Parent intent to enroll forms start at 222-439.

 

 

Gulen Movement: Turkey's Islamic Supremacist Cult and the Civilization J...

Washington, D.C.): It has become increasingly apparent that the United States is not only confronting a violent effort by Islamic supremacists to impose the program they call shariah on the rest of the world, Muslim and non-Muslim, alike.  Dangerous as jihadist terrorism is, America – and the rest of the Free World, for that matter – also face what amounts to a pre-violent assault.

The Muslim Brotherhood calls this stealthy, seditious effort to “destroy us from within” a “civilization jihad.”  One of its prime practitioners in this country is the Gulen Movement, a cult/business empire led by a reclusive Turkish expatriate, Fethullah Gulen, who operates from within an armed camp in the Poconos.

contd' http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2015/12/islamic-supremacism-does-business-in-u-s-via-a-turkish-cult-gulen-movement-is-an-engine-for-civilization-jihad-2595364.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Magnolia Science Academy is on a roll to open new schools just in time for the Broad, Gates and Walton Billion dollar give away



San Fernando Valley (2) applications

The Gulenists are like Turkish sailors on crack - cranking out charter school applications in the last 3 weeks.  They applied for 2 Magnolia Science Academies in the San Fernando Valley #10 and #11 and applied in Oceanside but strangely withdrew the application to re submit later.

They snuck in with the application but lets see if the LAUSD puts the breaks on because it's so soon after being in the dog house and almost closing for having financial shortfalls and other mismanaged money. 

December 12, 2015 was the presentation what will LAUSD do? 

Magnolia Science Academy 10

Magnolia Science Academy 10 New Charter Petition - Public Hearing 12/08/15

 

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Magnolia Science Academy 11

Magnolia Science Academy 11 New Charter Petition - Public Hearing 12/08/15

 

https://boe.lausd.net/node/2077

 

Oceanside, CA

Michelle Crumpton, Magnolia’s chief academic officer, wrote in the petition that the charter school would start with grades K-3 in the first year and add a grade each year, making it K-7 by 2022, when the charter petition must be renewed.
The school anticipates 510 students in its fifth year of operation, and about 1,000 students when it becomes a full K-12 school in 2027.
Crumpton said that the “the fast growth of high-tech clusters in San Diego County” will provide future high-wage job opportunities and that her company’s program will help meet that demand.
“Ensuring that the future workforce is properly educated in the STEM disciplines ... is a crucial first step in establishing economic sustainability for San Diego County individuals and communities,” she wrote in the petition.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jan/08/magnolia-science-academy-charter-oceanside/

Magnolia Science Academy Caprice Young tells a big lie, such a great example to children YES THIS IS A GULEN SCHOOL

One of Orange County’s largest school districts is calling for a temporary statewide moratorium on charter schools, accusing independently-run public charters of often caring more about making money than teaching students.
Orange County, meanwhile, is on the threshold of seeing more applications for charters in the coming year.
The superintendent and trustees of the Anaheim Union High School District recently issued a press release and an opinion piece accusing many charters of operating “in the shadows with no transparency, no accountability, and no public review.” They want laws regulating charters tightened.
In a Dec. 18 opinion piece published on the online news site Voice of OC, the Anaheim district leaders blasted Vista Charter, which has a school in Santa Ana and applied to open a campus in Anaheim. A day before, trustees rejected Vista’s application as financially and educationally unsound.
Trustees also criticized Magnolia Public Schools, a Westminster-based chain of 11 schools, including Magnolia Science Academy in Santa Ana.
Anaheim Union leaders wrote that Magnolia is part of one of the largest charter operators in the United States and is connected to a wealthy Turkish imam, Fethullah Gulen, whose schools and movement have attracted media attention, including a “60 Minutes” episode the district posted on its website. Gulen lives in the United States and is considered a powerful opponent to the Turkish government.
Magnolia officials say their schools are not affiliated to Gulen or his schools or the international Gulen movement, nor do they receive any funds from that organization.
Magnolia’s founders did include Turkish immigrants who are progressive Muslims who “believe in peace and interfaith dialogue and who see education as a priority, and Gulen is not the only world leader who is professing these things,” said Caprice Young, Magnolia’s CEO and superintendent. Magnolia’s schools do not engage in religious activities, she said.
Anaheim trustees’ are “pushing back because they want to have a monopoly over all the choices that families are allowed to make over public education,” said Young, a former Los Angeles Unified School District board president. “The truth is that without charter schools, only rich people can make choices in public education.”
Magnolia Public Schools, which emphasize science, technology, engineering, art and math, last month filed applications for 10 more schools over the next two years. In Orange County, Magnolia, founded in 1997, filed applications in Anaheim Union, Garden Grove Unified, Anaheim City and Santa Ana Unified school districts.
California Department of Education officials declined to comment Tuesday on Anaheim Union’s call for a moratorium. But they forwarded a related Education Code that states that for a school district to deny a charter request, it needs to find, in writing, that the application has not met one or more of specific required criteria.
Miles Durfee, of the California Charter Schools Association, said charters comply with federal and state laws and are held to high accountability standards. “The same old myths are tired, misguided and just plain wrong,” he said in response to Anaheim trustees’ opinion piece.
Ralph Opacic, founder and executive director of the county’s best known charter school – the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana – called the Anaheim trustees’ blanket criticism about charters ridiculous and dangerous.
“We have over 50 families from the Anaheim Union district in the OCSA because their needs are not met in that district,” Opacic said Tuesday.
In Orange County, there are 19 charter schools, some denied by their home districts but approved on appeal by the Orange County Board of Education or the California Department of Education.
Al Jabbar, an Anaheim Union board member, said the Orange County Board of Education takes away local control when it approves charter schools denied by districts.
“The reason we’re taking a lead is we’re looking at the trend,” Jabbar said. “We don’t want to put our taxpayers and parents at risk.”
Charter schools receive state funding based on the same formula as traditional public schools, but many charters also have additional fundraising.
Orange County Board of Education members David Boyd, Linda Lindholm and Ken L. Williams said in interviews that charter schools offer parents more options for their children.
Boyd said he understands the concerns of local districts that have excellent schools and don’t see the need for charters: “But the law is about parental choice.”
Williams said charter schools have greater control and autonomy and charter teachers and other staffers can opt-out of union membership. He questioned whether Anaheim Union’s call for a moratorium was “political in nature” and influenced by ties to a powerful teachers’ union.
“They never called or approached us about any of their concerns,” Williams wrote in an e-mail.
Meanwhile, Magnolia’s hearing before the Anaheim Union school board is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 6.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/schools-697882-anaheim-charter.html

Magnolia Science Academy "poor accounting, tight finances" = Organized Crime

LA Unified today finally released a report that confirming that two charter schools, Magnolia Science Academy 6 and Magnolia Science Academy 7, were operating with insufficient funds and for years and have been financially mismanaged.
The 78-page report, prepared by an outside firm for the district’s Office of the Inspector General, concludes that the Magnolia schools in Palms and Reseda are financially insolvent, spending more money than they’re bringing in.

Other accounting irregularities found on the OIG report included loans between schools, payment of immigration fees for unspecified persons, the possible use of school funds for a European field trip, and what seems like an unsustainable over-payment to a charter management organization providing services that are the purview of the charter group.
The review, which was completed in mid-June but withheld by the district, does not examine the Magnolia schools’ parent company, Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation, known as MERF, beyond June 2014 despite assertions by Superintendent John Deasy that the Inspector General would be looking into all eight of the district’s Magnolia schools.
The district’s Charter School Division based its denial of the two schools’ charter renewal petition on the findings of the report as presented to the school board over the summer. But the revocation of the charter was overturned in court and the schools were allowed to reopen this year. A court hearing is scheduled for January to determine whether they can continue to operate.

Officials from the Magnolia schools said they were heartened by the release of the report, saying that the detailed findings, now public, would help them mount a stronger legal case against the district in arguing to keep the schools open.
Kim Onisko, MERF’s accountant, sounded relieved after reviewing the executive summary. “Getting the numbers lets us trace back to where their figures came from to see if they’re right or wrong,” he told LA School Report.
“Basically the discussion is exactly the same as it was in June, it’s just we have more meat in this report so we can actually give a better response than we did to the prior report which didn’t tell us very much.”
What MERF officials contended then — and now — is that they operate as a company, not as individual entities, a difference that might show deficits at individual schools but not with the company.
“There is no inter-company borrowing because Magnolia operates as one entity, under one tax number. As such, you can not make a loan to yourself,” Onisko explained. “You can transfer money between departments, but there are no loans because you can’t contract with yourself.”
Onisko also denied the use of public money to fund a student field trip to Europe in 2011.
LA Unified officials declined to comment citing pending litigation.
Previous Posts: Magnolia schools remain open but relationship with Accord changes; Magnolia Charter troubles in LAUSD highlight larger concerns; Fiscal mismanagement’ cited in closing 2 Magnolia charters
http://laschoolreport.com/new-report-shows-same-findings-on-2-magnolia-charters-lausd/
78 page forensic report on Magnolia
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1311455-magnolia-oig-report.html

So who is Remzi Oten that donated $700,000 to MERF

Dr. Remzi Oten, of Sena Case  and Turkic American Alliance , California Turkish American Chamber of Commerce

Here is the photo of CATA (California Association of Turkish Americans) aka California Turkish American
chamber of Commerce which met on Sept 13 with a few memers of California legislature for future business ventures with Turkey and Gulen's TUSKON business man group of industrialists. 

Sena Cases owned and developed by Dr. Remzi Oten and later sold to Taurus
The $39,400 donated by Mr. Yilmaz Ak who is listed as principal of
Coral Science Academy in Reno, NV who is now has moved to California and
became principal of Magnolia Science Academy in Santa Clara, CA (But "There is
no organic connections".........Mehmet Argin quote from 2010 USA Today article)
 

Immigration fees of $206,489
Even though it's wrong using Education money for immigration
some were not even employees of Magnolia like Abdurrahnan Bayaktar
a teacher at "Gulen Inspired' Sonoran Science Academy in Arizona.

 

$24,000 expenditure for a trip to Italy and Turkey - Field Trip



 

Magnolia Public Schools are Fiscally Solvent per IRS definition More propaganda

Jeffrey HIll, CPA "independent" Financial auditor of Hill and Morgan = paid for by Magnolia Education and research foundation to look at a second set of books.



McEwen- Is a "FORMER" Criminal investigator as in past tense



Kim Onisko- Another paid forensic auditor, Kimberly (such a strange name for a man) name is not on

Magnolia Science Academy's 990 IRS tax returns., where is the CPA firm that signed your tax return?

Kimberly is another paid liar. 



This is bias and will not help the Gulen Movement.

Turkey passes controversial law to shut down Gulen schools

Fethullah Gulen Internet Date

Gulen Charter School Pacific Technology School DENIED the move to Costa Mesa

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-601606-charter-santa.html

BY ELYSSE JAMES and JESSICA TERRELL

COSTA MESA – The county Board of Education on Wednesday denied a charter school appeal that would have allowed the school to move 175 students in Costa Mesa to a new campus in Santa Ana.

Magnolia Educational & Research Foundation’s charter petition is unusual because it impacts roughly 175 students enrolled in a science, technology, engineering and math-focused charter school in Costa Mesa operated by the organization.

The school, Pacific Technology School-Santa Ana, may have to close in June if the group cannot get new approvals.

The five-member board voted 2-2-1, with member David Boyd abstaining.

“Now it’s the state’s turn to make the decision,” Magnolia CEO Mehmet Argin said. “We want the community not to lose this high quality STEM education in Orange County.”

Board members questioned Magnolia’s leaders about financial and enrollment projections, including those for other charters the organization has closed.

“We rarely have approved charter schools, and in my opinion, at least with respect to my vote, it’s always come down to one issue and that’s finances,” Boyd said.

In the months since the application was submitted, financial and enrollment projections have improved, Lisa Corr, an attorney representing Magnolia Educational & Research Foundation, told the board.

Administrators hoped to get authorization in Santa Ana, where the organization purchased land at 2840 W. First St. Magnolia has an $18 million grant to build the school. Other grant funds hinge on approval from a local or state board.

“I am extremely, extremely disappointed with the outcome of what happened,” said parent Dante Torres of Santa Ana. Torres plans to keep his son, Dante, 12, with the organization even if the Costa Mesa campus closes. “I’ll take my son to an L.A. campus or do homeschooling for the next year.”

Magnolia has eight schools in Los Angeles County, and one each in San Diego and San Francisco counties.

“It’s a wonderful school,” Torres said. “It’s helped my son grow so much.”

Jim Bush of Sacramento-based School Site Solutions, a school facilities consulting firm, said the 2-acre campus could open as early as fall 2015 if the school receives state funds by fall 2014. The new site would allow the school to increase enrollment to a projected 660 students, officials said.

Santa Ana Unified in October denied Magnolia’s charter application in a split 3-2 vote, saying the plans lacked key curriculum information and were based on inflated enrollment numbers.

When school districts turn down new charter schools, the organizations can appeal to the Orange County Board of Education and then to the state. The OCDE has yet to approve a charter application that was denied by a local district.

Pacific Technology – located in Costa Mesa but within the boundaries of Santa Ana Unified – operates under a rare state authorization set to expire in June. Because the charter organization no longer runs enough schools to qualify for the “statewide benefit” authorization, it is seeking local approval.

The proposal calls for transforming the 6-12 grade charter school in Costa Mesa to a K-12 charter school in Santa Ana. Like Pacific Technology, Magnolia Science Academy would serve predominantly low-income students and focus on preparing them for careers in math, science, engineering and technology, known as STEM fields.

Pacific Technology posted an Academic Performance Index score of 850 in 2013; Santa Ana Unified’s district average is 743.

The high projected enrollment of the new school was unlikely, both OCDE and Santa Ana Unified staff wrote in their recommendations. Additionally, the current school was one of five state-authorized charter schools last May deemed to be in “poor financial condition,” according to the California Department of Education.

Contact the writer: 714-796-7949 or ejames@ocregister.com

 

 

-----Charters@cde.ca.gov
916-322-6029

That is the department that managed the original Statewide Benefit Charter granted by the CA State Board of Education (SBE).

From: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/pn/im/documents/memo-dsib-csd-oct13item01.doc

·         Pacific Technology statewide benefit charter school must submit their renewal as per the conditions set forth in the MOU with the SBE. Currently, the Santa Ana campus is the only school site open for the 2013–14 school year...

The conditions of the MOU are what you need to know.

Until then, it will be unclear why Magnolia needed to seek local authorization.